The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena

What works

Both Butcher Bay and Dark Athena.  Both games played to completion. 

What does not

Game does not launch without patch to mesa for AMD cards, works without patch on nVidia hardware. 

Workarounds

A patch must be applied to mesa for AMD and Intel otherwise the game does not launch.  

The patch is NOT necessary for nVidia video cards.

My setup is an AMD Raven Ridge 2400g running 5.7.19 Mesa 20.1.1, llvm 8.0.0 running on Mageia 7.

This is the patch:

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diff -Naur mesa-20.1.1a/src/compiler/glsl/builtin_functions.cpp mesa-20.1.1b/src/compiler/glsl/builtin_functions.cpp
--- mesa-20.1.1a/src/compiler/glsl/builtin_functions.cpp        2020-06-10 12:03:00.425698800 -0600
+++ mesa-20.1.1b/src/compiler/glsl/builtin_functions.cpp        2020-09-11 19:12:35.000000000 -0600
@@ -3373,7 +3373,7 @@
 
    add_function("texture2D",
                 _texture(ir_tex, always_available,        glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::sampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
-                _texture(ir_txb, derivatives_only,        glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::sampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
+                _texture(ir_txb, always_available,        glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::sampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
                 _texture(ir_tex, gpu_shader4_integer,             glsl_type::ivec4_type,  glsl_type::isampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
                 _texture(ir_txb, gpu_shader4_integer_derivs_only, glsl_type::ivec4_type,  glsl_type::isampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
                 _texture(ir_tex, gpu_shader4_integer,             glsl_type::uvec4_type,  glsl_type::usampler2D_type, glsl_type::vec2_type),
@@ -3460,7 +3460,7 @@
 
    add_function("textureCube",
                 _texture(ir_tex, always_available,        glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
-                _texture(ir_txb, derivatives_only,        glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
+                _texture(ir_txb, always_available,        glsl_type::vec4_type,  glsl_type::samplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
                 _texture(ir_tex, gpu_shader4_integer,             glsl_type::ivec4_type,  glsl_type::isamplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
                 _texture(ir_txb, gpu_shader4_integer_derivs_only, glsl_type::ivec4_type,  glsl_type::isamplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
                 _texture(ir_tex, gpu_shader4_integer,             glsl_type::uvec4_type,  glsl_type::usamplerCube_type, glsl_type::vec3_type),
diff -Naur mesa-20.1.1a/src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp mesa-20.1.1b/src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp
--- mesa-20.1.1a/src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp       2020-06-10 12:03:00.439699000 -0600
+++ mesa-20.1.1b/src/compiler/glsl/glsl_parser_extras.cpp       2020-09-11 19:13:42.000000000 -0600
@@ -789,6 +789,8 @@
  */
 static const _mesa_glsl_extension *find_extension(const char *name)
 {
+   if (strcmp(name, "GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod") == 0)
+      name = "GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod";
    for (unsigned i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(_mesa_glsl_supported_extensions); ++i) {
       if (strcmp(name, _mesa_glsl_supported_extensions[i].name) == 0) {
          return &_mesa_glsl_supported_extensions[i];

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Since this patch seems only to be necessary for Riddick I didn't add it to my usual build for Mesa.  

On an RPM based system save the above patch to something like "0030-riddick-patch", then put that file in the "SOURCES" directory and add a line to the mesa.spec in the patch section like this:

Patch030:       0030-riddick.patch

Also to streamline the update, bump the "%define rel" line by one.

Then build mesa for x86_64 and i586 and do a rpm -Fvh on the updated packages.

What was not tested

Nothing

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: AMD
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

It's a pity the game is no longer available via commercial sites and going to the trouble above is a bit of a hassle just to get to assume one's alter identity of Vin Diesel.  

The game can still be had from https://www.myabandonware.com/